What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.